In terms of endearing mundane experiences in food services: It is painful that people get upset when something is off from their general expectations.
A good menu generally has a collective of adjectives some Johnny-pencil-pusher aligned in Adobe inDesign or like software because Microsoft Word is for your weak. All of you who put "proficient in Word" in your list of skills is like saying, "I can breathe, and poop at the same time".
After watching various videos of CES 2014 (If you don't know what that is, it's an electronic showroom for innovative and futuristic technologies) tomorrows technology has been harkening to a different drum. One that rapidly evolves and grows with traditions are built upon sand castles.
Let's tip-toe to the past when we had to learn cursive. All those damn cursive exercises cramping your poor undeveloped muscles and made writing a pain in the ass. They all looked similar, or didn't make sense at all. Only time you saw cursive in use was your teachers pseudo cursive comments like GREAT! or AWESOME! on your school papers. I was lucky to relive this pain my junior year of college when I was studying Japanese. ひらがな カタカナ 難しい. Under the dictatorship of the strictest 101 class I've ever had, stroke order hash that, flick this, dot there, cross here repeatrepeatrepeat I realized Kanji blew cursive out of the water in terms of complexity.
If we fast forward to today, what we were exposed in grade school seems pale in comparison to the abundance of technological advancements. I remember when texting was first introduced to the masses. I sent 6 texts on my first phone. They cost me 50 cents each. Now my phone can take videos of my dog's swag and has more abilities than my Windows 95. I still miss the good old AIM though. That running yellow man connected friends you wouldn't normally call.
Was that running man the start of isolation though? In High School people used to get asked out via text, broken up with a text, and had blood from their hearts splattered on the send button. As generations of kids start to grow into awareness they plant their faces on smart phone screens. Social media governs who is popular or not. People are so immersed in the digital world that it has adapted into our lives with online dating, porn, shopping, and awesome blogs like this one.
But is it too much? Is it taking away form "human" interaction and experience? Are we too reliant? Is some Terminator-Matrix shit about to go down? Or is it just part of evolution?
Where do you stand?
2 comments:
Well, there's a balance hidden in there. On one hand, yeah, we are all in complete isolation hiding behind our lcd screens and two tone phones, but seeing you write this blog is a reminder that while I hide behind my veil of books trying not to get too attached to all the tech of today, holding onto those moments when i'll see someone in person rather than text them what i just ate an hour ago and how it felt being voided from my bowels, i also managed to isolate myself away from some of the friends i made across the world like you. finally finding the time to start catching up on your blog, as well as malcoms and others, is reminding me that not all the media i ingest should be that of a higher form of art or such nonsense that i can talk about on monday at work, but instead these things my peers have been up to and sharing from their hearts, be them mundane or great. i still don't think i'll start snapchatting pictures of cats to people, but i'm definitely going to keep reading your blog, so please keep writing.
the greatest teacher is nature itself, its all about balance
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